Margaret Seidler

Margaret Seidler, a Charleston native, is a retired Organization Development consultant and national conference speaker whose work focused on creating higher performance in organizations and communities. Her areas of expertise included managing complex challenges, emotional intelligence, team building, conflict resolution and interpersonal communications.

Her leadership book, Power Surge: Energizing your Leadership Strengths, was published by the HRD Press of Amherst, MA, 2008. A case study of her work in strengthening citizen/police relationships in response to the Mother Emanuel AME Church tragedy was included in The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox, Oxford University Press, 2017.

Her broader work with the city of Charleston was included in Both/AND Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems, Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, MA, 2022.

Margaret is one of 47 contributors in UKWELI: Search for Healing Truth, South Carolina Writers and Poets explore American Racism, Evening Post Books, 2022.

In March 2024, “Payne-ful” Business, Charleston’s Journey to Truth, Evening Post Books, was released. It is a story about Margaret’s shocking discovery of three generations of slave traders in her Charleston family and the pathways she and others are taking to bridge the racial divide.